Films byTexts by 1926
FILM
Filmstudie
Hans Richter, 1926, 7’

Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray’s work, full of shifting geometric shapes, stock footage of seagulls, flying eyeballs, and glaring floating heads.

FILM
Faust
F.W. Murnau, 1926, 106’

The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

 

Mephisto: What do you want? A woman, a card game, an orgy?

 

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De cinema

De cinema stortte zich met een enorme roofzucht op haar prooi en bestaat tot nu toe voornamelijk voort op het lichaam van haar ongelukkige slachtoffer. Maar de resultaten zijn verwoestend voor beide. Het verbond is onnatuurlijk. Oog en brein worden genadeloos uit elkaar gerukt, wanneer zij tevergeefs als paar proberen samen te werken.

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The Cinema

The cinema fell upon its prey with immense rapacity, and to the moment largely subsists upon the body of its unfortunate victim. But the results are disastrous to both. The alliance is unnatural. Eye and brain are torn asunder ruthlessly as they try vainly to work in couples.

FILM
Moana
Robert J. Flaherty, 1926, 77’

The film is unquestionably a great one, a poetic record of Polynesian tribal life, its ease and beauty and its salvation through a painful rite. Moana deserves to rank with those few works of the screen that have a right to last, to live.